People: Mar. 21, 1969

L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican's unhurried newspaper, has just
published the news that on March 3, 1890, Buffalo Bill met Pope Leo
XIII. Seems Bill Cody was on tour with his troupe, and was standing in
St. Peter's Square when the Pope passed by. The two did not speak,
noted L'Osservatore; yet "the Pope observed Cody with curiosity, and
when he passed before him, the great explorer bowed deeply while
receiving the papal benediction." No story ran then because it was not
an official audience. But now it could be told: L'Osservatore was
reviewing...